Didn't have particularly high expectations for this disc, as I was already vaguely aware they were some sort of black metal/noise or black metal/industrial mix. More importantly, Jack Gannon, the guy behind T.O.M.B., was the vocalist for the post-Rotting in Hell Deteriorate material, when they made the extremely unfortunate stylistic choice of shifting to a black metal sound.
I was prepared for something much more extreme and harsh noise-influenced, but this wasn't nearly as sonically abrasive as I feared. The amount of musical variety here was also a bit surprising. Yes, the noise genre is an obvious component to the sound, but many tracks tread in dark ambient or death industrial territory. There are martial influences in some of the more rhythmic tracks, as well as minor touches of power electronics in spots. It's odd, because I went in expecting some basic similarities to the early Abruptum albums, but the general feel of the disc reminds me much more of the ambient Casus Luciferi despite its lack of metal. Make no mistake though, there's plenty of black metal here, of the noisier but not incompetently lo-fi variety. In this context, it works well as a break from all the noise/ambient stuff, but if the BM elements of the music were isolated, it wouldn't be a particularly impressive example.
Worth what I paid but not something I'm likely to return to.
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